Episode 231 – NATF Brings us to the Homefront, while Capt Radio takes us on the Cosmic Express

NATF Homefront 2005 Live Radio ShowThis week we set our sights on West Plains Missouri, where each year a national audio pilgrimage concludes with a spectacular live show broadcast across the world. The National Audio Theatre Festivals concludes their weekly workshop with a live show TONIGHT, June 24, 2011 starting 8:30PM EDT. Tune in at: http://www.kkdy.com/index.php

In the meantime, check out our show where we feature NATF’s 2005 production of “Homefront,” a touching tale of a son who sets out time-traveling to change circumstances with his WW2-bound father.

Also, Captain Radio is back with a review of The Cosmic Express by Joseph C McGuire.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Radio Drama Revival – Episode 231

Episode 217: St Patrick’s Day Audio Special Live from Ireland

Crazy Dog Audio Theater LiveOK, well the Guiness might actually be starting to run out of your system by the time you hear this, but we couldn’t help but raise a cheer for our favorite Dublin-based audio artist this week – Roger Gregg – by replaying some of his excellent work with Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.

So, we got a double feature – first, from Crazy Dog Live, “Ferdia the Druid,” about a druid con artist who gets in over his head when he is send to investigate REAL fairy folken. Followed by the first episode of The Apocalypse of Bill Lizard, a surrealist adventure into the Irish subconscious care of a sexy demon.

Also, Captain Radio is back on the beat with a review of Audie-award nominated radio drama original, “William’s Leap for Freedom” about abolitionist author Wells Brown, who was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky in 1814.

Throughout his lifetime, Brown was a fugitive slave, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist, an anti-slavery lecturer, an historian, a medical doctor, and a poet. For only $5 you can grab the entire MP3 on ZBS: http://www.zbs.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=16_57&products_id=414 . Produced at National Audio Theatre Festivals’ 2010 workshop.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Radio Drama Revival – Episode 217

Episode 179 – The Wind At Our Backs with the National Audio Theater Festivals

National Audio Theater FestivalsThis week we highlight the week-long National Audio Theater Festivals going down right now in West Plains, Missouri.

In fact, keep your ears peeled to their website as they’ll be streaming live at 8PM EST tonight with their 2010 show: http://natf.org/home/528

Anyways, what we’ve got on the ‘pod is work from 2003 and 2005. Listen to some of the best from this annual audio drama celebration!

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Download Radio Drama Revival – Episode 179

Episode 128: NATF in the Field and “The Return of the Bogman Mummy”

A mega-episode here today to celebrate the NATF workshop down in West Plains, Missouri, and then moving on to our focus on this year’s Ogle and Mark Time winners.

Lance Axt, man of many hats, introduces us to several personalities at NATF and gives us flavor of the workshop. We look into the #NATF feed that’s going out on Twitter. And hey! If you’re reading this on June 26, 2009, you can catch the live NATF show on their live stream. Click here to tune in at 8:30 EDT.

Following that up is Roger Gregg’s “The Return of the Bogman Mummy,” produced in tandem with the Gaiety School of Acting. It won the Silver Mark Time Award this year, and as far as I know, Radio Drama Revival is the only place to find it right now!

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Radio Drama Revival – Episode 128

Next week: an encore presentation of Waiting for a Window and then my interviews with Great Northern Audio Theater guys, Brian Price and Jerry Stearns.

Episode 124: Going Far Afield to Meet Western Ghosts

Play it By Ear Audio Productions
This week we continue our focus on artists who have been involved with the National Audio Theater Festivals, the upcoming week-long workshop dedicated to audio drama located in West Plains, Missouri.

This week’s drama is a feature produced by Lance Axt, the de facto voice of NATF on the LinkedIn and Facebook social networks and a hell of an audio talent and producer. The story is by Elizabeth Benjamin. “The Field” tells the story of a couple in a haunted house in the West where Native Americans unearth a sordid history… Listen on for a well crafted story of the supernatural.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Radio Drama Revival Episode 124 – The Field by Play it By Ear Productions

Episode 123: Sound Artistry and NATF with Dianne Ballon

Dianne Ballon Audio ArtistThis week we talk to Dianne Ballon, a Maine-based sound artist and audio educator who came down as a live guest to WMPG in Portland, Maine, where Radio Drama Revival originates. We talk about Dianne’s experience both as a participant and instructor at the National Audio Theater Festivals, held each June in West Plains, Missouri… Which means this thing is coming up soon! This June 21-27, to be exact.

Landing helicopters, strange sound effects, field recording, oh my! Learn about the great audio community that congregates in the Ozarks and hear why one sound artist makes the pilgrimage from Maine to the Midwest each summer.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Radio Drama Revival Episode 123 – Interview with Dianne Ballon

P.S. If you’re a listener of this show and are inspired to attend NATF, mention that you heard about the festival on the show and you can still get the early-bird special rate of $425 to attend. But register soon! You’ll need to book flights, too, right?

Register Form (PDF): http://www.natf.org/atw2009/NATF_2009_ATW_Application.pdf